Karnataka

Mangaluru, Aug 20: A pre-university college student and his two friends were injured in a broad daylight murder bid by a gang of three members in the heart of the city on Wednesday. The injured have been identified as Nikesh Shetty, a 2nd year PU student, and his friends Shanmuga and Kaushik, residents of Attavar area in Mangaluru. The unexpected attack took place on K.S. Rao Road when the trio

Udupi, Aug 20: Udupi-Chikkamagaluru Member of Parliament Shobha Karandlaje has said that State government has failed to increase the production of power and ensure its proper distribution. Speaking at a convention of newly elected Bharatiya Janata Party-backed gram panchayat members, here she said that even as parts of the State were facing drought, the farmers had to bear the burden of power

Ahmedabad, Aug 20: Suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who had taken on the Gujarat government headed by Narendra Modi over the 2002 post-Godhra riots, was on Wednesday sacked on the ground of "unauthorized absence" from service, an action which he said came after a "sham inquiry". "Yes, it is true that my services have been terminated. This was expected. They have been conducting a completely ex

Udupi, Aug 19: A person riding a scooter died after he was run over by a truck at Santhekatte here on Wednesday. Supreet Shetty (18), resident of Chantar village, was driving a scooter from Brahmavar to Udupi, when a truck moving in the same direction hit the scooter. As a result, Supreet was thrown of the vehicle and came under the wheel of the truck and died on the spot. The truck did not stop

Mangaluru, Aug, 19: Lashing out at Narendra Modi led NDA government for “unprovoked midnight action” by the Pune police who arrested half a dozen agitating students of the Film and Television Institute of India, AICC spokesperson Manish Tiwari said that the brutal crackdown does not augur well for Indian democracy. Addressing media persons in the city on Wednesday, the former information and

Mangaluru, Aug 19: In view of the steady increase in instances of cyber crime reported in Dakshina Kannada, Superintendent of Police Dr S D Sharanappa requested all nationalised, private and co-operative banks in the district to immediately perform an auditing of their online security measures including reviewing the security level of data servers to undermine attempts of hacking into them

Mangaluru, Aug 19: Former vice-chancellor of Mangalore University Prof TC Shivashankara Murthy died on Wednesday following a cardiac arrest in the state of Maharashtra. The end came when 66-year-old educationist was on a trip to Pune for some educational work. After retiring as a professor of Botany at the University of Mysore, Prof Murthy severed as the vice-chancellor of the prestigious

Mangaluru, Aug 19: The much-anticipated proposal to extend the runway at Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) has failed to take-off, owing to the heavy estimated cost and financial non-viability of the extension project. A year ago, the Director of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) had submitted a preliminary technical feasibility report on the airport’s expansion to the state government

Mangaluru, Aug 19: Sleuths from Panambur police station in Mangaluru have arrested two persons for illegally transporting buffaloes in a lorry from Mulki towards Kerala on Tuesday and seized 23 buffaloes from their possession. The two accused have been identified as Hammabba Monu and Ibrahim. At the time of intercepting the cattle-laden lorry, the lorry driver Sinoj is said to have fled from the

Mangaluru, Aug 19: In two separate accidents that occurred in recently near here, the victims who were injured, failed to respond to medical treatment and succumbed to their injuries. A student, who was seriously injured in a lorry-motorbike collision that occurred near Haleangadi about ten days ago, failed to respond to medical treatment and died at a hospital in Mangaluru. The motorbike rider